From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 02:53:33 CDT

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TITLE:
Engenio Storage Controllers Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12464

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12464/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Engenio Storage Controllers
http://secunia.com/product/3870/

DESCRIPTION:
Frank Denis has reported a vulnerability in Engenio Storage
Controllers, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
handling of incoming TCP packets. This can reportedly be exploited to
cause a vulnerable device to become unresponsive and under certain
circumstances corrupt data by sending a few specially crafted TCP
packets.

SOLUTION:
Grant only dedicated management systems access to the controllers.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Frank Denis

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